LOS ANGELES - A few days before he assumed the presidency of Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles, John C. Torjesen s...

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appeal court has put a cloud over a funding source for one of the state's premier water regulatory age...

SAN FRANCISCO - International powerhouse Jones Day is on the move in Silicon Valley and San Diego this month, literally. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a scathing rebuke, an Ohio judge revoked the privileges of Novato law firm Brayton Purcell and one of its p...

LOS ANGELES - Increasingly unable to find adequate funding to meet the state's ballooning transportation needs, lawmakers in S...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal prosecutor with a key role investigating stock-option fraud in Northern California has opted to leav...

LOS ANGELES - On Tuesday, JoAnna M. Esty was a partner at Liner Yankelevitz Sunshine & Regenstreif. On Wednesday, she was ...

SAN JOSE - Legal observers say it's no surprise the former senior counsel with Hewlett-Packard facing possible prison time in ...

PORTERVILLE - After 14 years as a deputy district attorney and three as a personal-injury litigator, Judge Juliet L. Boccone i...

U.S. District Court judges have reappointed Magistrate Judges Louisa S. Porter and Leo S. Papas to the Southern District of Ca...

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A football coach, a classical Greek philosopher, a constitutional scholar and even a convicted murderer - Los Angeles County S...

Among the family photos, pets and vacation shots that sit in Catherine Pratt's chambers is a small portrait of a young woman f...

Reflecting dramatic growth in the county's immigrant population, Baker Hostetler litigator Joseph Chairez is the first immigra...

EMPLOYMENT COLUMN - By Warren Farrell - There's a pay gap between men and women. That's simple. But the causes are complicated...

SAN JOSE - During his professional career, John A. Marlo has been a police officer, a lawyer, a published author, a city attor...

FOCUS COLUMN - By John P. Dacey and Kenneth Moscaret - You may think your legal bills are perfect and your deadbeat client sho...

SAN FRANCISCO - As his attorneys describe him, Alameda County Superior Court Judge Robert B. Freedman is an excellent judge an...

LOS ANGELES - As Southern California supermarkets and unions gird for a contentious collective bargaining process in February,...

FORUM COLUMN - By David Gurnick and Tal Grinblat - The 9th Circuit gave consumers a lift with an en banc decision that lets a ...

LOS ANGELES - The percentage of African-Americans and Latinos on the Los Angeles County bench far exceeds their numbers in the...

In Washington, California's senior senator confronted the U.S. attorney general face to face to complain Thursday that the Bus...

SACRAMENTO - The chair of the state Senate's Public Safety Committee called Thursday for the creation of an independent commis...

LOS ANGELES - The jury in California's second Vioxx liability trial found Thursday that Merck & Co. knew from available sc...

FORUM COLUMN - By Elaine Elinson - Fifty years after Allen Ginsberg's book "Howl" was seized by police, the risk of censorship...

WASHINGTON - The Justice Department says some of the many lawsuits challenging the Bush administration's warrantless national-...

FOCUS COLUMN - By Laura M. Wilson - A new federal rule lets lawyers cite unpublished opinions in briefs. Good thing, right? M...

Until the day he died in prison last year at 48, Mark Collin Sodersten maintained his innocence in the 1984 murder of a Tulare...

SAN FRANCISCO - Public Advocates President Jamienne S. Studley was appointed to the San Francisco Ethics Commission Wednesday ...

The California Supreme Court is considering throwing out a convicted child molester's 230-year prison sentence. ...